Unit BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES AND SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY

DIDACTICS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Code	GP003681
CFU	2
Teacher	Fabrizio Stracci
Teachers	Rosario Salvato (Codocenza)
Hours	12 ore (Codocenza) - Rosario Salvato
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Inglese scientifico e abilità linguistiche, informatiche e relazionali, pedagogia medica, tecnologie avanzate e a distanza di informazione e comunicazione
Academic discipline	M-PED/03
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian language
Contents	Pragmatic dental knowledge, which often is reduced to a surgical practice, when facing the world of children, needs a deep comprehension of those childhood behaviors in order to get the best collaboration to achieve suitable dental treatment. Great importance is given to a proper way of receiving parents in the operative unit in order to know possible socio-educational criticalities, and styles of life, therefore making it easier to show prevention strategies. It is necessary to take care of several educational aspects such as relationship with parents, health education, correct styles of life and food habits. Reflections are very meaningful on the politics of welfare for a proper integration among area-heathcare-social policy- educational policy.
Reference texts	S. Benini, Reti di possibilità. Quando la pedagogia incontra le prassi sanitarie, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2016.
Educational objectives	Learning the most important indicators, in Special Teaching. Knowing applicatory contexts of the Special Didactics: the programming curricular (in his phases) and the study of appropriate methodologies.
Teaching methods	The course is made up of: - Classes (compulsory) on all themes of the course - workshops and practice for those students who attend in order to make a socio-educational project.
Other information	Attendance is not compulsory but advisable.
Learning verification modality	The test, which is oral and lasts about 15/20 minutes, is aimed at checking the knowledge students have acquired during the course, the ability to elaborate and internalize the contents, the ability to communicate and use the proper vocabulary.
Extended program	The few clinical criticalities in managing the odontostomatological illnesses of childhood-adolescence have some aspects which involve the experiential and emotional side of children. To deal in an effective way with these aspects you need specific pedagogical and psychological competences. The difficulty in managing a number of patients in evolutionary age, very young or with special needs, represents a further and more difficult step in the ordinary clinical practice. The Ministero della Salute, through new guidelines, gives great importance to these difficulties, in terms of adopting precocious and well-planned strategies to prevent oral illnesses. In other words, pragmatic dental knowledge, which often is reduced to a surgical practice, when facing the world of children, needs a deep comprehension of those childhood behaviors in order to get the best collaboration to achieve suitable dental treatment. Great importance is given to a proper way of receiving parents in the operative unit in order to know possible socio-educational criticalities, and styles of life, therefore making it easier to show prevention strategies. It is necessary to take care of several educational aspects such as relationship with parents, health education, correct styles of life and food habits. Reflections are very meaningful on the politics of welfare for a proper integration among area-heathcare-social policy- educational policy.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Code	GP003679
CFU	4
Teacher	Fabrizio Stracci
Teachers	Francesco Santini (Codocenza)
Hours	30 ore (Codocenza) - Francesco Santini
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Inglese scientifico e abilità linguistiche, informatiche e relazionali, pedagogia medica, tecnologie avanzate e a distanza di informazione e comunicazione
Academic discipline	INF/01
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian.
Contents	HTML and CSS programming, visualization of content through a Webpage. Basic notions of Word and Excel.
Reference texts	Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (O'Reilly Media; 2nd edition (September 8, 2012)) ISBN-13: 978-0596159900
Educational objectives	All students completing this course should be well-versed in computing technology and usage. Students should be literate about concepts and techniques of computer programming.
Prerequisites	No prerequisite.
Teaching methods	Slides and classroom exercises.
Learning verification modality	The exam consists in the discussion of home assignment. The assignment is an HTML website with 4-5 pages in HTML and a CSS style. In addition, also an EXCEL exercise will be discussed.
Extended program	Programming assignments will primarily be done in HTML/XHTML and CSS, which are the principal programming languages used for producing pages for the World Wide Web. Basic notions of Word and Excel from Office suite.

General Psycology

Code	GP003682
CFU	2
Teacher	Innocenza Ritacco
Teachers	Innocenza Ritacco
Hours	12 ore - Innocenza Ritacco
Learning activities	Base
Area	Discipline generali per la formazione dell'odontoiatra
Academic discipline	M-PSI/01
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	ITALIANO
Contents	LE BASI DELLA PSICOLOGIA. IL MONDO SOCIALE E IL POTERE DEL GRUPPO. ELEMENTI DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA. IL COMPLESSO MONDO SANITARIO.
Reference texts	COMPENDIO DI PSICOLOGIA GENERALE, Leonardo Abazia, Vincenzo Avallone, ed. Franco Angeli, 2016
Educational objectives	Apprendimento teorico-pratico degli elementi di psicologia generale. Conoscenza delle tematiche relative alla comunicazione, relazione terapeutica, delle tecniche efficaci e della comunicazione assertiva; nonchè nozioni sullo sviluppo dei processi cognitivi e dei disturbi reattivi agli eventi traumatici.
Teaching methods	Le lezioni saranno in modalità frontale. All'interno del corso saranno organizzati gruppi di lavoro su tematiche attinenti al programma.
Learning verification modality	Colloquio orale.
Extended program	LE BASI DELLA PSICOLOGIA: il cervello, l'attenzione, l'apprendimento, la memoria, le emozioni. IL MONDO SOCIALE E IL POTERE DEL GRUPPO: linguaggio e comunicazione, l'interazione sociale, stereotipi e pregiudizi, la leadership, il gruppo, l'equipe. ELEMENTI DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA: teorie di base, l'età evolutiva, l'anziano, il malato terminale, la relazione paziente-operatore. IL COMPLESSO MONDO SANITARIO: dal modello bionedico al modello biopsicosociale, stress e burnout nell'operatore.

MEDICAL STATISTICS

Code	GP003680
CFU	4
Teacher	Fabrizio Stracci
Teachers	Fabrizio Stracci
Hours	24 ore - Fabrizio Stracci
Learning activities	Base
Area	Discipline generali per la formazione dell'odontoiatra
Academic discipline	MED/01
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italiano
Contents	Study design in medical research Definitions and role of Statistics in medical research Descriptive statistics Statistical inference Correlation and regression Survival analysis
Reference texts	Biostatistica Pagano M Gavreau K Gnocchi ed. Napoli Statistica per Discipline Biomediche Glanz S . McGrawHill Milano
Educational objectives	Students will be able to use basic statistical tools and concepts They will appreciate the role of statistics in medical research Students will be able to read critically and understand statistical methods used in research articles
Prerequisites	None
Teaching methods	Theoretical lessons and practical training
Learning verification modality	The examination is based on a written test. An oral examination may be requested by students (optional). Duration: 1h. The written test requires the solution of three exercises and multiple response test. The exercises are designed to assess knowledge of descriptive statistics, statistical testing, and regression. Score (range 8-12) is indicated for each exercise and the sum of scores is 30 points. It is possible to Oral examination is intended to assess the general understanding of statistical methods. Duration about 20 minuts. The possibility to take the oral exam is limited to students which have passed the written test
Extended program	1. Introduction 1.1 Statistics definitions and scope 1.2 Statistical methods in medical research 2. Data 2.1 Types of variables 2.2 Tabulation and processing of data 2.3 Diagrams 2.4 Descriptive statistics 2.5 Measures of central tendency 2.6 Measures of variability 3. Probability 3.1 Frequentist definition of probability 3.2 Probability distributions 3.3 The normal or Gaussian distribution 3.4 Probability distributions and applications 4. Populations and samples 4.1 Parameters and their estimation 4.2 Sampling 5. Statistical inference 5.1 Point and interval estimation 5.2 Confidence interval for the sample mean 5.3 Significance testing 5.4 Parametric Hypothesis Tests: Student’s t test and Analysis of Variance 5.5 Confidence interval for the difference between two means 5.6 Non-Parametric Hypothesis Tests: chi-squared test 6. Regression and correlation 6.1 Regression models 6.2 Linear regression 6.2.1 Linear regression equation: parameters estimation using the ordinary least squares method 6.2.2 Tests of significance in regression 6.2.3 Confidence interval for the linear regression coefficient b 6.3 Correlation 6.4 Critical reading of results from multivariable regression models 7. Evaluation of diagnostic tests 8. Time to event data analysis, an introduction